Photo/Somali Times What you need to know: The duo have been rebelling against a new poll agreement reached last month. Mogadishu. Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is on Thursday expected to hold crucial talks with the leaders of Jubaland and Puntland states to chart a common path for the upcoming elections. Ahmed Mohamed Islam of

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has listed nine Kenyan individuals suspected of supporting terrorist activities in the country. In a statement on Tuesday, the CS Ordered that the bank accounts and property of the individuals be frozen with immediate effect. “The only way to deny terrorists the means to threaten our way of life is

Photo/Somali Times The Acting Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations, Ambassador Cherith Norman Chalet, said her country had spent nearly $3.5 billion to restore Somalia’s security over the past two decades, without achieving any results. Norman added that the US continues to use airstrikes to target the leaders of Al-Shabaab movement,

Photo: Credit Wikipedia An El Al Israel Airlines Kuwait has refused to allow an Israeli plane heading to the UAE to fly through its skies, stressing that no Israeli planes will ever use its airspace, Quds Press reported yesterday. According to the news site, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas reported government sources saying: “Israeli planes

Ethiopian-Americans against US cutting $130M aid to Ethiopia to enforce Egypt friendly agreement on sharing Nile waters. The US has now formally stepped in, to support Egypt and punish Ethiopia over the river water sharing dispute between the two African countries. Last week, the Trump administration announced blocking a $130 million aid that had been

In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018 file photo, a man walks on a mountain of plastic bottles as he carries a sack of them to be sold for recycling after weighing them at the dump in the Dandora slum of Nairobi, Kenya. The oil industry in 2020 has asked the United States to pressure Kenya

Photo/Somali Times Presidents of Puntland Said Abdullahi Deni and Jubaland’s Ahmed Mohamed Islam has met with representatives of the international community in Mogadishu, Somalia, especially the Ambassadors of the USA, UK, Sweden, Italy and the European Union. The meeting of the presidents and the international community focused on holding timely and credible elections in Somalia.

Photo/Somali Times The governor of the Benadir region, Omar Mohamud Mohamed (Omar Filish) ministers and parliamentarians of the Somali government welcomed Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni and Jubaland president Ahmed Islam at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu. The presidents will meet with the president of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Sources told Somali Times the

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks with King Salman in Riyadh in 2018 (SPA/AFP) By Madawi al-Rasheed Since the discovery of oil in the country in the 1930s, Saudi Arabia has been an important hub for western interests in the Middle East region. King Salman bin Abdulaziz will leave the throne almost a century

Somalia’s spy chief Fahad Yasin. By Michael Rubin Another terror threat against America could be brewing. On August 23, 1996, Usama Bin Laden, a then-obscure Saudi jihadist, declared war on the United States. It would be more than a week before wire services or the U.S. press would pick up Bin Laden’s statement which came